Uridine triphosphate
- UTP
- [5 - (2,4- dioxopyrimidin -1-yl ) - 3,4- dihydroxyoxolan -2-yl ] methyl (hydroxy phosphonooxyphosphoryl ) hydrogen phosphate (IUPAC)
- [( 2R, 3S, 4R, 5R ) -5 - (2,4- dioxopyrimidin -1-yl ) - 3,4- dihydroxyoxolan -2-yl ] methyl (hydroxy phosphonooxyphosphoryl ) hydrogen phosphate
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Uridine triphosphate (UTP ) is a nucleoside triphosphate with uracil. It is an RNA component that is incorporated with the elimination of two phosphate groups in the RNA, and serves as a coenzyme for the activation of sugars to be incorporated in polysaccharides. For this purpose it binds hexoses to form an ester, so that a UDP hexose.
The transesterification from UTP and glucose-1 -phosphate to UDP-glucose and pyrophosphate activated D-glucose for installation in Glykogenpolymere ( surplus sugar is stored as glycogen in animals ). In the isomerization of D- galactose, UDP-galactose to glucose is first formed, which is then converted to UDP -glucose. This gives her the next UDP galactose on.